8-Bit Fashion: 12 Gamer Geek Wearables & Decor Designs
If you’ve always wished you could step inside an old 8-bit game or computer, outfitting yourself and your home in these pixelated designs is about as close as you’re likely to get. Make your ...
Category: Technology
Technology is a core content area not only for WebUrbanist but in our daily lives whether we like it or not. These innovations, creations and aberrations are meant to incite conversations about the past, present and future relationships of humans and the technologies that we deal with all the time and that envelop, support and grow our urban environments in ways we can often not predict.
Settlers of Chernobyl: Self-Contained, Fallout-Absorbing City
Despite warnings about dangerous radiation many families have already taken up residence around Ukraine's famous failed nuclear reactor. This skyscraper acknowledges that trend, and would help ...
Point & Shoot: 8-Bit Gameboy Gun Takes and Prints Pictures
This fun bit of retrofuturistic tech genius looks like an ‘80s designer’s idea of a high-tech camera smashed up with a toy gun, and it actually works, taking and printing photos. Russian ...
Sound & Fury: Motorcycle & Instrument Designers Switch Roles
How would someone who designs motorcycles for a living approach creating a kit of drums, and vice versa? Yamaha’s Project AH A MAY explores that question, swapping the roles of designers in ...
For the Record: 13 Modern & Conceptual Turntable Designs
As record players enjoy a resurgence in popularity, their designs get sleeker and more modern, incorporating 3D printing, lasers, magnets that levitate the disc so it plays while in mid-air and ...
Invisible Bicycles: Tokyo’s High-Tech Underground Bike Parking
Sufficiently advanced science has been said to look like magic, like this subterranean cycle storage system - except in this case images and videos give you a peak at the secret workings below ...
Rapid Resin: Liquid 3D Printing Looks Like Morphing T2 Metal
Generating objects 25 to 100 times faster than traditional layer-based 3D printers, this new continuous-liquid approach to high-speed fabrication can create complex yet refined finished objects ...
Unconstructed: 25 Visionary Works by World-Famous Architects
Some were conceived of as storytelling devices or futuristic concepts, while others were intended for actual construction before the plans were scrapped, but each of these buildings tells a ...
CastAR 3D: See the Future of Work & Play in Augmented Reality
In this new video, Technical Illusions, the company behind CastAR, a hybrid augmented and virtual reality headset, shows off a series of amazing everyday applications of their technology, ...
Dead Drops: Hidden USB Sticks Offer Anonymous File Sharing
If you happened to notice a USB stick poking out of a brick wall in an urban space, would you be brave enough to connect your computer to it just to see what it might contain? Will it dump a ...
